resizecons stoically refuses to accept any form of arguments presented to it, consistently producing a "bad number of arguments" error message.
I have verified this report to be true on a test lab machine. I am assigning it to a developer for further review.
I fixed resizecons --lines 40 or resizecons -l 40 in console-tools-19990302-17. The other forms of resizecons invocations appear to be historical and require other sorts of support files. The functionality also appears to be in the process of being superseded by other tools.